▲ 471 ▼ Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why. (www.gadgetreview.com) submitted 2 months ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/technology@lemmy.world 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (5 children) Who exactly is it very good for? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago (4 children) Envinronment. Google is now able to generate 43% more value to the society (revenue) per unit of pollution. Their profits rose by 93% (market cap by 66%) adjusted to pollution. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) Fake money, fake tech, fake people, fake value, real consequences. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago You can't just call things fake. Money is the best thing to measure value. Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X). permalink fedilink source parent [–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) Value to society. Yeah no. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago What better way than price of services sold do you have to measure generated value? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago (4 children) Envinronment. Google is now able to generate 43% more value to the society (revenue) per unit of pollution. Their profits rose by 93% (market cap by 66%) adjusted to pollution. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) Fake money, fake tech, fake people, fake value, real consequences. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago You can't just call things fake. Money is the best thing to measure value. Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X). permalink fedilink source parent [–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) Value to society. Yeah no. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago What better way than price of services sold do you have to measure generated value? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) Fake money, fake tech, fake people, fake value, real consequences. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago You can't just call things fake. Money is the best thing to measure value. Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 month ago You can't just call things fake. Money is the best thing to measure value. Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) Value to society. Yeah no. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago What better way than price of services sold do you have to measure generated value? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago What better way than price of services sold do you have to measure generated value? permalink fedilink source parent